Episode 1015 He caught me today. (5)
Namgungdan was really confident.
Isn’t there a saying like that? ‘It all depends on the mind’.
Of course, he was not a person who basically believed in this theory of tenacity. But anyway, I have lived my life believing that even if you do the same thing, a lot of things can change with just one mindset.
Now that he has decided to fully accept the training of Cheongmyeong and has renewed his resolve, Nangungdan thought that it would be different from before.
Until just before half an hour ago.
Patter!
Nangungdan trembled and lowered his eyes and looked down.
A pile of rocks fell from where his foot slipped and fell far below.
Namgung Dan’s eyes trembled as if there had been an earthquake.
“Huh… Ugh….”
He, who was shaking and unable to breathe deeply, looked up this time. A towering mountain peak was visible under the blue sky.
Yes. Now he was climbing the cliff.
“Turn it off!”
With my feet not knowing where to go, I somehow managed to stick them to the cliff face and cling closely to them. I was so desperate that I was almost ready to dig into the cliff.
“Whoop!” Phew! Whoop!”
I was out of breath and my body was vibrating. Every time I looked down into the distance, I felt like my heart was shrinking forever.
A little while ago, I was wondering if I had to die at all, but…
‘No, I’m going to die! I’m dying! ‘You crazy people!’
These volcanic bastards seemed to be more insane than he could have imagined.
“How come my arms are losing strength?”
A voice came from far away that gave me goosebumps.
“okay. Take your strength away. “If that’s the case, what’s worse than falling?”
At those words, Namgungdan looked down again without realizing it.
‘no!’
I quickly closed my eyes and pressed my body against the cliff. Every time I looked down that far below, it seemed as if all the strength in my legs went away.
At least I think I’ll be able to do anything without the gaiters hanging on my limbs…
‘Does it make any sense to climb this steep cliff wearing these?! ‘You crazy people!’
“Whoop!” Phew! Whoop!”
After taking a deep breath, he wiped the sweat running down his face with his shoulder and slowly turned his head.
“Dojo.”
“yes?”
He was speaking to a disciple of the Hwasan Sect who was calmly climbing the cliff a little below.
“Hey, don’t you think this training is too harsh?”
“Ah…”
Namgoongdan had his own hopes.
Although he was slowly starting to realize that there was something out of the ordinary among the Hwasan Sect members, this Hwasan disciple called ‘Yoonjong’ still seemed like a normal person.
I felt like I could still speak out against that devil.
However, Namgoongdan’s expectations were shattered by Yunjong’s subsequent answer.
“Is it serious?”
“yes. yes! stamp! “This is too dangerous!”
“…Danger…?”
Yoonjong tilted his head. With an expression that said, ‘I don’t even understand what the hell you’re talking about.’
“…That seal?”
“Danger? “Are you here?”
“….”
At that moment, Namgoong Dan felt that something was off between the two.
“Isn’t this situation really strange?”
“It’s definitely strange.”
Yoonjong took one hand off the cliff and slowly scratched his head.
“That guy wasn’t this loose.”
“yes?”
“At most, I don’t know what kind of training you can get just by climbing a cliff like this…. You can get training by climbing a cliff that is at least half as big as a single cliff. Even though this is near the Yangtze River and there are no high mountains, this is the way it is….”
“ …yes?”
What on earth is this person talking about?
Yunjong sighed as if he was worried.
“Since the people of Namgung have made up their minds after a long time, we must do our best to respond, but I am worried that they are only practicing like water. “I think it would be perfect if the cliff height was doubled and the slope was a little steeper.”
…Are you sane?
Namgoongdan, who was at a loss for words, looked at Yunjong blankly, forgetting that he was hanging on a cliff. Then he suddenly came to his senses and shouted.
“Isn’t this the cliff? Dojang! “If you fall, you’ll die!”
“…yes?”
Then Yoonjong glanced down again with a face that said, ‘I have no idea what you’re talking about.’ Then he smiled a very personable smile.
“Oh, that’s what you were worried about.”
“yes! That’s it…”
“If that’s the case, you don’t have to worry. “I won’t die.”
“…yes?”
Namgungdan looked at Yunjong as if he had been stabbed in the back of the head out of nowhere. The smile on Yoonjong’s face was flawless and bright.
“I fell five or six times from places twice as high as here, but I didn’t die.”
“….”
“And falling is scary at first, but it becomes so afterward.”
What really struck people was that there was not the slightest hint of malice in each word.
“So let’s go ….
”
“uh?”
Yoonjong turned his head. One of those who had climbed the cliff ahead of them screamed and fell down the cliff.
Coooooo!
“….”
The swordsman of the Namgung family, who was pinned to the floor, foamed at the mouth and collapsed.
Even after seeing that terrible scene, Yoonjong just shrugged his shoulders as if it were a big deal.
“Look. “You’re not going to die, are you?”
“…I think he’s dead?”
“haha. “He’s really good at telling jokes.”
Does this sound like a joke? this?
“Why on earth do you practice like this…”
Namgungdan hurriedly closed his mouth before asking a question. Didn’t you promise to never voice your dissatisfaction with your training from now on? He, no one else, could break that promise.
“Oh, there is a clear reason for that.”
“yes?”
Yoonjong smiled and answered.
“There are many things a swordsman needs, but the most important thing is wrist strength and finger strength. “Isn’t a swordsman who loses his sword while fighting worse than a stone rolling around on the street?”
“….”
“That’s why you need to practice not losing your grip no matter what happens. “There is no place better than a cliff like this to embody in your body the sense of danger that your life will be lost the moment your strength goes out of your hands.”
As Yoonjong spoke, he glanced down. ‘I don’t know if that sense of crisis would be right on a low cliff like this.’ Namgungdan desperately ignored his muttering.
“ah. And when you climb a cliff, you naturally strengthen your knees, ankles, and back. Besides…”
Yunjong stopped talking and tapped the stone beak that Namgungdan was standing on.
Then, the beak of the stone snapped and broke, and Namgungdan’s body slid down.
“Aaaahhh!”
Namgungdan spread his arms and legs wide to the left and right and grabbed the cliff in horror. He barely managed to stop himself and looked back at Yunjong with a face covered in cold sweat.
“What is this…!”
“As you can see, all sorts of things happen on the cliff.”
“That…”
Nangungdan barely suppressed the words, ‘What does that have to do with this, you crazy idiot!’ Yoonjong spoke calmly.
“Boulders sometimes break and gusts of wind suddenly blow. There are even cases where a passing suri runs up to peck its back.”
“…yes?”
“It’s the same on the battlefield. While fighting, you may suddenly get caught on a tree root and fall down, a broken knife may fly into your back, or even a comrade’s knife may pierce your leg.”
“….”
“An inspector must be able to respond quickly to all situations. That’s why climbing cliffs is good training.”
Yoonjong pointed upward with his chin.
“… that guy claimed. Well, I kind of agree. “I saw great results.”
“….”
“So, hurry up and go up. “If you turn off the clock, you will be late for dinner.”
Namgungdan swallowed dryly and looked down the cliff once again.
The height you have risen is not much different from the height you will rise to in the future. In this case, it is safer to go up this ridiculous cliff than to go down.
“Keuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”
Namgungdan desperately stretched out his hand and grabbed the cliff.
‘These bastards are all crazy!’
“Hmm.”
Cheongmyeong, lying down on the cliff, lightly shook the liquor bottle in his hand.
Fluffy. Fluffy.
His eyebrows furrow slightly as he hears a light sound.
“…you’re close.”
For a moment, annoyance flooded me.
“Why does it take so much time to climb just one cliff! “All these bastards are gone.”
“It’s your first time, isn’t it? Things like that happen, too.”
“Can you do that? Of course you can. Of course I think so.”
“huh?”
Cheongmyeong slowly stretched out his foot and placed his foot on something standing on the cliff. There was a pile of stones the size of a human head. Cheongmyeong grinned while putting his foot on the bottom of the pile of stones.
“But I wonder if they think that way too?”
“….”
Cold sweat appeared on the back of Baekcheon’s head.
“…Wouldn’t that… be a bit excessive?”
“huh? “Too much?”
“Yes, Cheongmyeong. Think about it. Intense training is good, but as a human being, you have to develop your skills step by step, starting from a level you can handle. First, calm down…”
“Hmm.”
Cheongmyeong nodded as if Baekcheon’s words made sense.
“That’s certainly true.”
“Isn’t that right? So, take your foot off of there first. huh?”
“That’s right…. Gosh!”
At that moment, Cheongmyeong stretched out his foot and rolled the pile of stones towards the cliff.
Rumbling!
“Aaaahhh!”
“The stone is falling!”
“What kind of bastard! Ouch! “What kind of bastard are you?”
A desperate scream came from below. Baekcheon closed his eyes tightly. When I slowly opened my eyes again a little while later, Cheongmyeong was grinning.
“Aiko. “My foot slipped.”
‘devil.’
“Giggle, giggle, giggle.”
Cheongmyeong smiled evilly amid the screams and swearing coming from below, crossed his arms and looked at the distant sky.
‘It’s peaceful.’
The water of the Yangtze River was flowing proudly. This is to put to shame the situation of the old factions and the factional alliances facing each other across the river.
It is not easy for either the Gupa or the Saphae-ryeon to make the first move in the current situation. That meant that this peaceful daily life would be maintained for a while.
Well, those unlucky bastards like the court chief and Jang Il-so may have complicated minds, but there was no need for Cheongmyeong to think on their behalf.
“Hmm.”
Cheongmyeong’s gaze, which had been looking across the river as if searching, turned to the sky again.
As I slowly closed my eyes, the blowing wind tickled Cheongmyeong’s cheeks.
‘I wish it continued a little longer.’
It was a wind so small that it was embarrassing to even call it a wish.
But at this moment, a movement different from the wind of clarity was taking place. A fierce wind that no one in the world expected, not even the court, Jang Il-so, or even Cheongmyeong, was blowing, carrying the strong smell of blood.
It is a harbinger of a storm that will once again plunge the world into deep darkness.
